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So today we're going to be talking about Shanda Sharer, who was a 12 year old girl, and I just want to give a warning now that this is a very heavy case.

I will give a warning closer to the time where things get very intense so that you can skip ahead but if you just

don't like cases involving children at all then I suggest that you click out but

yeah quickly before I get into this I just want to give my usual disclaimer that

I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video this

video is for educational purposes and everything that I'm about to say is just

information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video.

So Shanda Renee Shara was a 12 year old girl born on June 6, 1979 in Kentucky, USA. When Shanda was still young, her parents, Stephen and Jacqueline divorced and Shanda moved with her mother to Louisville where a stepfather eventually came into the picture.

Shanda was a very energetic, sporty girl. Any kind of athletic opportunity, activity, sport that was offered to her, she took it.

She was a cheerleader, she was on both the softball and volleyball teams and took part in other sports kind of more casually on the side, including baseball, basketball, gymnastics.

And then in June of 1991, Shanda's mother Jacqueline divorced Shanda's stepfather and she and her mother moved to Indiana, where Shanda then enrolled in Hazelwood Middle School. Her first few days at

this school went really well. She was making friends, she was fitting in, she was

doing really well but then around the third day something happened. Shanda was

speaking to one of her new friends at this school who told Shanda that she'd recently

broken up with a boyfriend but she still had this ring that he'd given her and she wanted to give him it back but she couldn't do it herself.

And Shanda, eager to make friends with this new girl, she wanted to impress her, she wanted to get on a good side, she said, I'll do it for you, I'll take this ring back to your ex-boyfriend.

And so Shanda took this ring to this boy and as you can imagine he was not very happy and he kind of took that out on Shanda rather than his ex-girlfriend that had given him the ring back and just then as he began shouting at Shanda, his cousin walked past who was two years older. This older cousin was 14 year old Amanda Heverin. She was two years

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